Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.